Day: September 20, 2023

News

Govt commends Millenium Heights housing programme

West Property Company is constructing a multi-million-dollar flats project in Borrowdale West, Harare, a move that is expected to ease the housing backlog in Zimbabwe. West Property Company owns, Millenium Heights an exclusive up-market lifestyle estate enthused by modern family living in close proximity to superb shopping centers, schools and medical facilities. The highly secure […]

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Rehabilitated Mushandike Irrigation Scheme benefitting farmers

REHABILITATION of Mushandike Irrigation Scheme in Masvingo under the Smallholder Irrigation Revitalisation Programme has resulted in improved production and transformation of lives, with farmers focusing on wheat this season. Mr Proud Mhosva is one of the 57 farmers at Mushandike Irrigation Scheme whose plot was suffering from diminishing returns due to a number of challenges, […]

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President Mnangagwa arrives at JF Kennedy International Airport in New York for the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. – Picture: Presidential Photographer Joseph Nyadzayo
News

President arrives in New York

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday for the 78th Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly.  The Head of State and Government landed at JF Kennedy International Airport and was welcomed by Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Trade Mr James Manzou and officials from Zimbabwe’s Embassy in the United States.  President Mnangagwa, who […]

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Corporate Governance Unit in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Mr Allan Choruma
Business

Parastatals foreign debt reaches US$1,6bn

STATE-OWNED enterprises (SOEs) and parastatals’ foreign debt reached US$1,6 billion in 2022 from US$1,3 billion in 2021 largely owing to failure to prudently account for resources, a development that puts a strain on the national fiscus, the head of Corporate Governance Unit in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Mr Allan Choruma has said. […]

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ZIMRA commissioner-general Ms Regina Chinamasa
News

Zimra to roll out new tax admin system

THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is set to introduce a new tax system next month in a bid to revolutionise the tax administration terrain in the country through an efficient, effective, and easy-to-navigate system based on a digital platform. Known as the Tax and Revenue Management System (TaRMS), it is a product of ZIMRA’s business […]

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A large bushfire burns in the outback of Australia near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, Wednesday, September 13, 2023 [Bushfires NT via AP]
International News

The West’s climate crisis is bad news for the Global South too

Increasing heatwaves, floods and hurricanes in the West threaten to divert climate finance away from developing nations. The global investment and lending systems are on the verge of a climate-centric metamorphosis as the consequences of global warming on economies around the world become impossible to overlook. That change should be good news but it is […]

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ZIMRA commissioner-general Ms Regina Chinamasa
Business

Zimra to roll out new tax admin system

THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is set to introduce a new tax system next month in a bid to revolutionise the tax administration terrain in the country through an efficient, effective, and easy-to-navigate system based on a digital platform. Known as the Tax and Revenue Management System (TaRMS), it is a product of ZIMRA’s business […]

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Robert Mutsauki
Sports

Mutsauki unpacks National Sports Council

VETERAN sports administrator Robert Mutsauki believes the proposed National Sports Council that is set to replace the Sports and Recreation Commission will promote inclusivity in sport and bring an integrated sports system.  The Minister of Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture Kirsty Coventry is in the process through Parliament of repealing the Sports and Recreation Commission […]

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News

President Arrives in New York

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday for the 78th Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly.  The Head of State and Government landed at JF Kennedy International Airport and was welcomed by Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Trade Mr James Manzou and officials from Zimbabwe’s Embassy in the United States.  President Mnangagwa, who […]

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Business

Getbucks delisted from ZSE

GETBUCKS Microfinance Bank Limited was on Monday delisted from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) after minority shareholders approved a special resolution at an Annual General Meeting last month. The green light was given during a sixth Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the shareholders held on 31 August. In a notice, ZSE said, “The Zimbabwe Stock […]

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